Do Apes Read Minds?: Toward a New Folk Psychology

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Index Affective state. See Mood Affective tension. See Curiosity state Animal culture, 255–229, 247 Anomalous behavior, 110, 154, 220–222, 224, 240–242 innovative, 225–229 Ape mindreading. See Critter psychology; Mindreading in critters Apperly, Ian, 170–171 Arational action, 176–177, 194–195, 199, 202–204 Aristotle, 14–16, 19 Atance, Cristina, 152 Attributing propositional attitudes. See Mindreading Attributing mental content. See Mindreading Autism, 101–102, 119, 166–167, 187–189, 192–193, 196–197, 208–209. See also False-belief tasks and autism; Mindblindness; Mindreading and autism Baillargeon, Renee, 25–28 Behavioral generalizations. See Heuristics Belief-desire psychology, 14–15, 52–54, 95, 99–112, 131–133, 153, 217, 221, 243. See also Representational nature of belief Bloom, Harold, 79–80, 151–152 Boesch, Christophe, 237–238 Bromberger, Sylvan, 41, 118–119 Buttleman, Frederick, 28–29 Byrne, Richard, 218 Call, Josep, 232, 243 Callanan, Maureen, 149–150 Camp, Elisabeth, 165 Cartwright, Nancy, 140–141 Ceteris paribus clauses, 56–60 Chimpanzee psychology. See Critter psychology; Mindreading in critters Chouinard, Michelle, 148–150 Churchland, Paul, 40, 50, 58–59, 129, 186 Cognitive dissonance, 120, 122, 145, 153–154 Cognitive penetrability, 61, 63 Cohen, Adam, 171–172 Confabulation, 174, 229 Confirmation bias, 107–108, 124 Coordinating behavior. See Folk psychological practices, other Correspondence bias. See Fundamental attribution error Covering law explanation. See Deductive-nomological explanation 290 Index Critter psychology, 12, 197, 234–248. See also Mindreading in critters explaining behavior, 240–243 mindreading, 231–235, 243–248 predicting behavior, 237–240 Curiosity state, 120–124, 126–128, 145–146, 148, 220, 222, 240–243. See also Explanation seeking; Folk psychological explanation Currie, Gregory, 199 Davidson, Donald, 17–18, 21–22, 103, 131, 135, 157, 165–167, 176 Deception. See Folk psychological practices, other Deductive-nomological explanation, 39–40, 119, 129–131, 138; See also Scientific explanation Dennett, Daniel, 16, 18, 20–21, 49, 54–55, 106–107 De re and de dicto belief, 160 de Waal, Frans, 216, 242, 245 Dispositional nature of belief, 22, 30–33, 204. See also Representational nature of belief Dunbar, Robin, 129 Egocentric bias, 76–81 Elgin, Mehmet, 141 Emotional action. See Arational action Epley, Nicholas, 80 Explaining behavior. See Folk psychological explanation Explanation seeking, 12, 119–124, 127–128, 135, 145–146, 152–153, 220–22, 228. See also Curiosity state; Folk psychological explanation; Why-questions causal, 149–151 in chimpanzees, 232–233, 240–243, 247–248 Exploratory behavior. See Explanation seeking False-belief tasks, 6, 10, 20–29, 31–35, 43, 185–187, 189, 244. See also Mindblindness; Mindreading; Standard Folk Psychology and autism, 189 and children, 14, 21–24, 33–35, 79, 103, 136, 152, 172 and critters, 20–21, 172 and infants, 25–29, 31–31 False-consensus effect. See Egocentric bias Fodor, Jerry, 16–18, 21, 50, 55, 57, 129, 165 Folk causation, 157–161, 175–178, 185, 193–195, 219, 221. See also Folk psychological explanation Folk psychological explanation, 6–17, 20, 32, 24–44, 57–59, 71–73, 94, 111–112, 115–178, 183–187, 189–192, 194–195, 197–201, 203–211, 216, 220–222, 224–230, 232, 239–248. See also Curiosity state; Explanation seeking; Folk causation; Scientific explanation; Why-questions from causal histories, 157–159, 161, 221 (see also Folk causation) from enabling factors, 157, 159–162, 168, 173, 175, 221 (see also Folk causation) generating, 121–122, 124, 127, 145, 151 nonverbal, 163–168 quotidian, 42 from reasons, 157–159, 161, 167, 175, 221 (see also Folk causation) from situations, 131, 151, 156, 159–162, 168, 173 from stereotypes, 126, 221 from trait attribution, 128, 131, 156–157, 160–162, 164, 168–169, 173–178, 195, 221 Index 291 Folk psychological practices, other, 6, 11–12, 183–187, 197–211, 216, 234. See also Folk psychological explanation; Folk psychological prediction; Heuristics automaticity of, 202–203, 205–206 coordinating, 237, 239 deceiving, 217–220 Folk psychological prediction, 6–16, 18–21, 23–24, 32–38, 42–44, 47–112, 115, 126–128, 138–140, 152, 161, 170, 173–174, 179, 183–192, 194–195, 197–201, 203–211, 216–220, 222, 224, 230–234, 236–240, 243–248 in anomalous situations, 50–51, 110–111, 220–222 (see also Anomalous behavior) prognosticating, 68, 72, 74, 115, 210 quotidian, 10, 50–51, 67–68, 72, 74, 99, 115, 192, 208, 210, 220 from self, 68–69, 75–81, 105 from situations, 68–76, 96...